baltosquid

If the Eagles hadn't taken their foot off the gas and put in the backups, hey, 6 field goals probably would have still won the Super Bowl

Absolutely awful drive home from Harford county to Baltimore (got home about 30 minutes ago). 95 was caving in places and I’m not surprised there was a crash soon after I was gone. Really find it hard to fathom there wasn’t at least 59 minutes or something, straight up dangerous situations all over the road start to finish and it all could have been avoided. And I would have been safe at home on a normal Tuesday if not for RTO. Anyway… Baltimore is looking good. Everything has caved. Small flakes coming down hard. Hopefully those fluff up as things get colder.

HRRR looks way better. Let’s hope it’s not the only adjustment! Still a few hours until game time up here.

I keep holding onto this sentiment because it seems like every time we’ve gotten a storm with little to no blocking setup, like clockwork the r/s line has at least one north jaunt before game time, often to heartbreaking results. Suddenly getting a stubborn storm in that setting when we couldn’t buy that for a while doesn’t sit right with me, but we are getting very close now…

Would take the NAM in a heartbeat but we really can’t keep bleeding moisture.

HRRR just has dry air kill the early phases of the storm in much of Maryland. If not for that, it may have looked like an uninspiring but not so bad run. Hopefully it’s being too stingy with moisture in the NE reaches of the shield.

I’m hanging onto the idea that the absence of an established, strong block portends a north trend, since it feels like that’s been the story for things like this the past few years - just turns out they had no room to go north for places like Baltimore, unlike this case. But at the same time, heartbreak in general has usually carried the day no matter the particulars…

Beautiful in deep creek, radar looks decent back home in Baltimore, but can’t make real obs from here! Hopefully there’s at least a fresh handful of inches when I return tomorrow edit: oops radar loop was old. Looks like it’s dryslot time back home now

Temps still ticking worse for 95, not alarm bell level but I don’t want anymore moves like that

FV3 is for 95 with the rain snow line. Really want to see some of these mesos stop riding the nw envelope of guidance

And we’re all bowing down to our AI overlords

I am set to arrive 7am 1/11, so if this were to materialize, may need to try to rebook to arrive even earlier… best feeling is being the last plane in. Worst is being the first one to get shafted.

A heavy squall before heading to AZ would be nice, would at least make me feel like I did not totally miss out if we get something bigger in the week to come.

Some pings in the morning was all in Baltimore. Takes title for closest it's been to a white christmas in some time though, pretty much by default... "yay?" Edit: Actually turns out there's maybe some mangled "accumulation" on the deck, seems mostly like a sparse layer of sleet but maybe there was a brief period of snow earlier

Of course I’m traveling on the 4th and will not be back until the 11th. Hopefully there’s a welcome home storm in the cards (after touching down of course).

Light snow at APG!

I'd just like some mood flakes to get things started. Durable accumulations east of the mountains for this weekend are off the table, but maybe there will be a few scattered heavy flurries trailing down from the PA border that juuuust make it to 95.

Best photo of Thursday, during the 10pm substorm. Washed out in the city but was still very much naked eye visible though fainter. Only caught a bit of the 7:30 substorm which seems like it was the strongest but overall what a night!

I really, really, really hope this can stay clear of Haiti. Just can’t bear to watch them continue to catch every bad break.

Not my pic but close by. Seems like we did indeed get caught under a tiny vortex.

It’s a branch massacre over here. Adirondack chairs thrown about, some shutters yanked off facades as well. Edit. We appear to have been gifted some cushions on the deck…

People up 95 should be on the lookout, hook still seems to be present

Damn. I think the rotation passed very close to us here in canton just after the rain passed. Got incredibly and chaotically windy and got some power flickers. Seems done for now…

Radar presentation of the storm about to come through Baltimore has a pretty clear hook echo

Hp30 index climbed to 7.333 briefly but has come back down. Saw pics of auroras over Lake Ontario but probably not going to get to us barring a bigger hit waiting in the wings tonight. And of course the clouds are excruciatingly stubborn on top of this.